Application Development & DevOps Flashcards

Which AWS service is a fully managed Docker container registry for storing and deploying container images?

Answer: Amazon ECR

Elastic Container Registry (ECR) stores, manages, and deploys container images.

What does AWS Fargate provide for container workloads?

Answer: Serverless compute so you don't manage EC2 instances

Fargate runs containers without you provisioning or managing the underlying servers.

Which AWS service is a managed Kubernetes control plane for running containerized applications?

Answer: Amazon EKS

Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) runs upstream Kubernetes as a managed service.

In Amazon ECS, what defines the container image, CPU, memory, and port mappings for your application?

Answer: Task definition

An ECS task definition is the blueprint describing how containers should run.

Which AWS service helps you deploy and scale web applications by handling capacity provisioning, load balancing, and health monitoring automatically?

Answer: AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS that manages infrastructure while you focus on code.

What is a key advantage of using containers over traditional virtual machines?

Answer: Lighter weight and faster startup by sharing the host OS kernel

Containers share the host kernel, making them more lightweight and faster to start than full VMs.

Which AWS service provides a high-level abstraction to define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages like Python or TypeScript?

Answer: AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

The CDK lets you define infrastructure in code and synthesizes it into CloudFormation.